Co-Production or Contested Production? Complex Arrangements of Actors, Infrastructure, and Practices in Everyday Water Provisioning in a Small Town in India

The role of transformational leadership and institutional entrepreneurship in organizational change in Indian public organizations

“…Contemporary studies on public infrastructure in India (Cui et al, 2018;Höffken & Limmer, 2019;Rao-Nicholson & Svystunova, 2021;Qiu & Rao-Nicholson, 2021;Chatterjee & Kundu, 2022) have noted the lack of relevant organizational reforms (Khanna et al, 2021) and talent to support India's growing demand for public facilities and infrastructure (Shah & Prakash, 2018;Chertow et al, 2019;Kumar, 2021). There is thus a gap in our knowledge of how organizations can leverage entrepreneurship during the process of organizational renewal or the creation of new subsidiaries (Lawrence et al, 2002).…”

“…Recent studies have examined the construction of public infrastructure in developing countries (Cui et al, 2018;Höffken & Limmer, 2019;Rao-Nicholson & Svystunova, 2021;Qiu & Rao-Nicholson, 2021;Chatterjee & Kundu, 2022), and have considered the role of typical public organizations in this context (Morris, 2019;Monstadt & Coutard, 2019;Dolla & Laishram, 2020). Within this context of public infrastructure development, authors have noted a lack of a suitable climate of reform in some cases (Khanna et al, 2021) as well as a lack of entrepreneurial talent to support the expanding demand for new infrastructure in India (Shah & Prakash, 2018;Chertow et al, 2019;Kumar, 2021).…”

The politics of coproduction during Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’: Water, housing, and waste in comparative perspective

“…We overcome this by drawing on insights from scholars who have explored the politics of coproduction in the Global South. Mitlin (2008), for example, shows how urban communities and social movements have used coproduction as a tool to exert greater influence over state policies and practices, build organizational capacity, and take collective control of infrastructure and services (see also Ahlers et al, 2014;McMillan et al, 2014;Mitlin, 2018;Mitlin & Bartlett, 2018;Chatterjee and Kundu, 2020). She sees coproduction as having instrumental value for these groups, as a mechanism to challenge power relations and increase political influence.…”

Coproduced urban water services: When technical and governance hybridisation go hand in hand

“…According to more recent literature about the coproduction of urban services in the Global South (Chatterjee and Kundu, 2022;Faldi et al, 2022;Rateau and Jaglin, 2022;Rosati et al, 2022), there is a broad consensus that service coproduction, whether individually or collectively operated, mainly developed as an alternative form of service delivery to bridge the gaps left by poor or absent centralised networks. Although coproduction has entered into international strategies for sustainable service provision (United Nations, 2016), and is considered promising in tackling place-based water problems (Yu et al, 2012;Faldi et al, 2019) and in fostering citizen empowerment and citizenship (Mitlin, 2008;Allen, 2013;Moretto et al, 2018), this option can present limitations for sustainability, being potentially subject to elite capture and exclusion of the most vulnerable groups (Ahlers et al, 2014;McMillan et al, 2014;Mitlin and Bartlett, 2018;Faldi et al, 2019Faldi et al, , 2020.…”